Mangled Metaphors

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AshMan

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These are funny:

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer.

3. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

4. McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with vegetable soup.

5. Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

6. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

7. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

8. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

9. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

10. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left York at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Peterborough at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

11. The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the full stop after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.

12. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

13. The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.

14. The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red crayon.

15. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

16. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

17. The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

18. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for while.

19. "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a student on $1 beer night.

20. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

21. Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."

22. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a lamppost.

24. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free cash point.

25. The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan set on medium.

26. It was a working class tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with their power tools.

27. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a dustcart reversing.

28. She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword.

29. She grew on him like she was a colony of E coli and he was room-temperature British beef.

30. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

31. Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.

32 . It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

33. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

34. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.

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  kingboy said:
for the people who dont know what a metaphor is, its a comparison using "like" or "as".

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actually that'd be a simile

/pedant

[edit] oks better make it more specific. The difference between a metaphor and a similie is that a mataphor is not a comparision and does not have "like" or "as"

So a simile would be "All the world is like a stage"

The metaphor equivalent would be "All the world's a stage"

So a metaphor's basically stronger than a similie

Small difference I know, but, yah, I'll go watch tv now.

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"Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."
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The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for while.
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Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

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Evolution

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Probably the best kind of humour I've heard, I love this kind of stuff :)

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Jane was toast, and not the light buttery kind, nay, she was the kind that's been charred and blackened in the bottom of the toaster and has to be thrown away because no matter how much of the burnt part you scrape off with a knife, there's always more blackened toast beneath, the kind that not even starving birds in winter will eat, that kind of toast.
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The painting was very Escher-like, as if Escher had painted an exact copy of an Escher painting.
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sbweb77

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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger so you can do unto others what they did unto you

A bird in the hand gets the worm

If at first you dont succeed the best things in life are free anyway

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for

He's sitting on the fence with both ears to the ground

Idle hands are a terrible thing to waste

Even Napoleon had his Watergate

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step for man a giant leap for mankind

He took the low road on his high horse

All the worlds a stage and we are merely one legged men in an ass kicking contest

Tis better to keep your mouth closed and look like a fool, than to open your

mouth and let flies in

Those that live by the pen die by the sword. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

Love means never having to say I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

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